[Haskell-cafe] How to make callCC more dynamic

[bob zhang]

Thank you, there is also a nice link here :-)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7178919/how-to-make-callcc-more-dynamic
and for this type,
ContT {runContT :: forall r1 . (forall r2 . a-> m r2) -> m r1}
callCC can be defined, however, you can not run it, and reset couldn't
type check
于 11-8-25 上午1:53, oleg at okmij.org 写道:
> bob zhang wrote:
>> I thought the right type for ContT should be
>> newtype ContT m a = ContT {runContT :: forall r. (a-> m r) -> m r}
>> and
>> other control operators
>> shift :: Monad m => (forall r . (a-> ContT m r) -> ContT m r) -> ContT m a
>> reset :: Monad m => ContT m a -> ContT m a
>> callCC :: ((a-> (forall r . ContT m r)) -> ContT m a) -> ContT m a
>> unfortunately, I can not make callCC type check, and don't know how to
>> do it.
> Precisely that problem was discussed in  
> 	http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/undelimited.html#proper-contM
>
> Your ContT is CPS1 in the above article. The article shows why you
> cannot write callCC with the above type of ContT. The article talks
> about other types. BTW, if you faithfully defined the monad for
> undelimited control than shift/reset cannot be expressed. Undelimited
> continuations are strictly less expressible than delimited ones. The
> above page gives the pointers to the papers with the proof.
>
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